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" I don't have a religion, but I respect them. "
Paul Watson
Religion
Them
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" My clients are the whales and the seals. "
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" Russian subs are a bargain at $60,000. Unfortunately, none of the dials or instructions are in English. "
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English
None
Bargain
" The fact is, Japan's whaling is illegal, so just because there is a natural disaster in Japan is no reason for us to stop opposing their illegal activities in the Southern Ocean. "
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Reason
Fact
Stop
" I wouldn't think I was successful if I didn't have just as many people hate me as support me. "
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Support
Think
People
" The only thing scarier than Godzilla is Godzilla's lawyers. "
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Only
Lawyers
Than
" NATO isn't going to be concerned about fishing. "
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Going
Fishing
About
" Pete Bethune is a hero in New Zealand. He's a hero worldwide to people who want to see the end of whaling. "
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Hero
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" In Ecuador, if I go after an Ecuadoran, I'm in trouble; if I go after a Costa Rican, I'm a hero. "
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Go
After
" Does Greenpeace think it can stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly eating whale meat and declaring it delicious? What are these people thinking? "
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Thinking
Eating
People
" I have been honoured to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me. "
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Intelligence
Strength
Me
" Sustainable fishing is a fraud. It's a marketing term that really means 'business as usual.' "
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Fraud
Business
Fishing
" Protesting is fundamentally submissive. "
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Submissive
Protesting
Fundamentally
" Canada I don't trust. The Canadian government hates me more than the Japanese. "
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More
Government
Canada
" If we wipe out the fish, the oceans are going to die. If the oceans die, we die. We can't live on this planet with a dead ocean. "
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Die
Ocean
Live
" I'm not interested in culture; I'm interested in the law. "
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Interested
Law
Not Interested
" Costa Rica and Germany have simply been pawns in the Japanese quest to silence Sea Shepherd in an attempt to stop our annual opposition of their illegal whaling activities. "
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Sea
Opposition
Shepherd
" The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics. "
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Language
Industry
Economics
" Sea Shepherd is to terrorism what Groucho was to Marxism. "
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Shepherd
Marxism
Sea
" Here's the thing: Nobody gets extradited for a crime where nobody's been hurt, where no property's been damaged. "
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Hurt
Nobody
Property
" I feel that people should have a license to have children, that they have proper education how to raise children. And that nobody should be allowed to be a parent unless they can prove that they are competent enough to be a parent. "
Paul Watson
People
Education
Parent
" Taiwan gives a lot of foreign aid to Costa Rica, so it looks like they are basically buying the right to fish, even though it's not legal. "
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Fish
Legal
Like
" The oceans are the last free place on the planet. "
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Place
Planet
Free
" If you're dealing with criminals, they're not going to want to go to court. "
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You
Want
Going
" In December 2012, the U.S. 9th district court granted a temporary injunction to the Japanese whalers that ordered the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society U.S.A. to not approach within 500 yards of the whaling vessels. "
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Court
Temporary
Sea
" We buy a bottle of water in the city, where clean water comes out in its taps. You know, back in 1965, if someone said to the average person, 'You know in thirty years you are going to buy water in plastic bottles and pay more for that water than for gasoline?' Everybody would look at you like you're completely out of your mind. "
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Mind
Look
Know
" Any social movement throughout history has always been carried out by only 7% of population being passionately active in that. "
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Only
Always
Active
" No words can describe the personal liberation that heading seaward bestows upon me. In this aquatic realm, no man or woman is subject to the petty decrees of social bureaucracy. "
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Man
Words
Woman
" I will not watch a whale die. I've not seen a whale die since I left Greenpeace in 1977. "
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Left
Seen
Die
" All revolutions are violent revolutions. "
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Violent
Revolutions
" Protesting against illegal activity is not piracy. "
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Against
Piracy
Activity